Cybernetics

The repetition of this phrase highlights just how much Brautigan thinks technology has evolved in such a short space of time. Instead of saying “I like to think of a cybernetic meadow” once, he continuously repeats the first seven words with a different environment to emphasize his point. Both Stafford and Brautigan utilize anaphora well to put the focus on what they want the main point of their poems to…

can no longer just draw conclusions about the dysfunction like in first order, but in second order the problem or dysfunction is extraneous and the change made within a system is considered to be a shift in context within the system. Second order cybernetics includes parts of epistemology participation, non-purposeful drift, and reality as a multiverse. Epistemology of participation is the idea that members of the systems are constantly interacting, evolving, adjusting, and changing to…

several institutions, universities, and research centers around the world with the mission of facilitating people in extending their senses by applying cybernetics to the organism, helping people to become cyborgs and to defend cyborg rights as well as promote cyborgism as an art movement. The belief of this foundation is that certain cybernetic extensions should be considered body parts rather than machines or devices. Harbisson clearly states that this foundation is not made with the intention…

Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…

German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, ‘’Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.’’ In both the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, the loss of free will/individuality does happen in a fatal and tragic mannerism. In Forbidden Planet, a space crew from Earth is sent to the planet Altair IV to investigate the whereabouts of the missing first expedition that has been unheard from in 20 years. Captain Adams, the main…

She placed down a sheet of metal and cut it so that it fit into a slot on her cybernetic arm. She then got plastic from the resources she had been given by the little Tsujin boy, and began welding small tubes of plastic into the module, and filled them with the fluid from the regenerator. She then began work on the HCTO. Putting together…

controlling Cestus Cybernetics, whom are creating powerful droids to use in the upcoming Clone Wars. Little does Obi-wan know, the Nefarious Count Dooku is creating these droids for his use. Obi-wan will eventually fall right into the hands of Dooku, and events transpire into the 3rd film.…

rumored to have life and are a suitable habitat for humans—is Centauri Proxima B and is 40,308,000,000,000 kilometers away (NASA). With our current technology, it would take over 73,000 years for us to arrive (NASA). However, with the advent of cybernetics and a better understanding of technology, we will find a more efficient way of travel. It will still take decades, or even millennium, to reach Centauri and other exoplanets, but the fear of perishing mid-flight would be at the back of our…

hardships of World War 2 through the experiences of the main protagonist Billy Pilgrim. It is a controversial novel that has created multiple perspectives (right and wrong) and one of those perspectives can be obtained in an article titled “Dystopian Cybernetic Environment in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse five” which is authored by three journalists Babaee, Yahya, and Sivagurunathan. The article through the focus on Billy Pilgrim’s experiences in the era of World War 2 reaches to a cold…

This beautiful and successful entertainer (dancer, singer and artist) had her brain implanted into the metal body, after a theater fire critically damaged her human form. The excerpt describes her first live performance after she obtained her new cybernetic body. The audience is unaware of her true identity. Consequently, the reader understands if the audience will accept her in this current state-the symbiosis between a human flesh and a machine. Ultimately, people are contented by her…